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To: Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com>
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From: Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se>
Subject: Re: enhancement request: make py3 read/write py2 pickle format
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In a message of Tue, 09 Jun 2015 14:08:25 -0400, Neal Becker writes:
>One of the most annoying problems with py2/3 interoperability is that the 
>pickle formats are not compatible.  There must be many who, like myself, 
>often use pickle format for data storage.
>
>It certainly would be a big help if py3 could read/write py2 pickle format.  
>You know, backward compatibility? 
>
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We have an issue about that.
https://bugs.python.org/issue13566

Go there and say you want it too. :)

Laura